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Just got through watching director Roger Corman in one of his most B-rated sci-fi flicks on DVD. It's so cool, it should have been on Mystery Science Theater 3000 too.:roflmao:

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Maybe I missed it but surprised Bob Marley: One Love hasn't been mentioned. Not a 10 or anything but pretty good and I enjoyed it - and on the bass POV, super cool that Aston Barrett Jr. plays Familyman (I have to wonder if he's not using his dad's actual basses). It does look like he's playing for real.



Related, back when I was playing with Olatunji I met Al Anderson. Great interview with him here - including how different success is from what people imagine (he was making more playing covers of Mustang Sally as a teenager in New Jersey than playing with Marley...) “Bob Marley didn’t want to hear my jazz-rock… I had to start all over again. I needed to play slower and add more feeling. Once I did, he told me, ‘That’s it, man!’” Al Anderson opens up on his tumultuous time with a reggae icon
 
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I watched bits and pieces of the old Superman movies. They're all really bad. I remembered 4 being bad but I had no idea. I watched that whole thing. It's embarrassing. You know what Superman movie doesn't suck? Superman Returns. It's a great movie. I don't know why it failed and didn't lead to a franchise. It's missing action and Lois Lane is really unlikeable but everything else about that movie is great.
 
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Not sure how I missed this one. Wasn't a Colin fan back in the day, probably why (but I've grown some respect since Bruges and Banshees). It was fun listening to him slip between Texas drawl and brogue! Some fine young actors in this movie and I liked the grainy production - quirky and atypical 'Nam flick.
 
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"Oppenheimer"

Okay...I realize the movie is titled "Oppenheimer," not "The Manhattan Project," so of course the focus is on the man, but I still would have liked to have seen a little more detail about the project, considering the fact that there would be no movie about Oppenheimer without it.

Also, (and hopefully without giving away too much), there could have been less about the private security hearing. As important as it was, it got rather tedious. I don't mind a 3-hour movie, but IMO this movie could have been at least a half an hour shorter.
 
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Dynacord said:
Maybe I missed it but surprised Bob Marley: One Love hasn't been mentioned. Not a 10 or anything but pretty good and I enjoyed it - and on the bass POV, super cool that Aston Barrett Jr. plays Familyman (I have to wonder if he's not using his dad's actual basses). It does look like he's playing for real.



Related, back when I was playing with Olatunji I met Al Anderson. Great interview with him here - including how different success is from what people imagine (he was making more playing covers of Mustang Sally as a teenager in New Jersey than playing with Marley...) “Bob Marley didn’t want to hear my jazz-rock… I had to start all over again. I needed to play slower and add more feeling. Once I did, he told me, ‘That’s it, man!’” Al Anderson opens up on his tumultuous time with a reggae icon
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I'm not a fan of music bio-pics but if this brings Marley's music to more people, its a good thing. I'm glad Barrett's son plays him and I'm hoping Rita finally has made things right with Familyman's family. Rita Marley found Sharon Osbourne's manual on how to screw band members out of money.:)
 
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I'm not a fan of music bio-pics but if this brings Marley's music to more people, its a good thing. I'm glad Barrett's son plays him and I'm hoping Rita finally has made things right with Familyman's family. Rita Marley found Sharon Osbourne's manual on how to screw band members out of money.:)
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It's doing OK having pulled in $120M vs a $70M budget thus far. How that trickles down, I have no idea - though I share your hope (see the Al Anderson link re: band members and money).
 
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jerry said:
I'm not a fan of music bio-pics but if this brings Marley's music to more people, its a good thing. I'm glad Barrett's son plays him and I'm hoping Rita finally has made things right with Familyman's family. Rita Marley found Sharon Osbourne's manual on how to screw band members out of money.:)
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After reading about his passing, my understanding is Family Man lost in court.
 
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